US Patent 11494128 Access control of resources in a cloud-native storage system

A method for access control of resources in a distributed storage system using an API level model. An ownership object is created corresponding to a volume. The ownership object includes a string defining the owner of the resource. Access rights are given to collaborators or groups and stored as property list fields in the ownership object. Any requestor not listed as the owner, a collaborator, or part of a user group is denied access to the resource.